Flexible, Constraint-Based Tools for Complex Scheduling
Applications

Ora Lassila and Stephen F. Smith

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Abstract

In this paper, we advocate a view of scheduling application
development as a differential and incremental process. We describe
DITOPS, a flexible constraint-based transportation scheduling system
that is designed to explicitly support this view, and has been used to
provide a wide range of logistics support functionality.

The research reported in this paper has been supported in part by
the Advanced Research Projects Agency under contract F30602-90-C-0119
and the CMU Robotics Institute. The authors are affiliated with the
Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems of the CMU
Robotics Institute. They can be reached through email at
ora@cs.cmu.edu.